This anthology, hailed as a significant contribution to American ethnic studies, features the short stories, poems, and plays of more than thirty Italian American artists. Drawing on their individual and collective backgrounds and experience, these writers convey another vision of American fife. A section of critical essays by established scholars in the field, with topics ranging from specific works and authors to broad literary movements and film studies, analyzes the Italian American phenomenon and the role of ethnicity in literature. The extensive bibliography treats creative works, critical essays, and films dealing with the Italian American experience and promises to be an invaluable research tool. anthologies,anthologies and literary collections,classics,criticism and theory,education and reference,general,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction General, Purdue University Press

From the Margin: Paperback: Purdue University Press: 9781557531520: 30 Apr 1999: This volume of Italian Americana writings has been revised to include the lyrical voices of Mary Jo Bona, Peter Carravetta and Robert Viscusi; the prose writing of Mary Bucci Bush, Carol Maso, Ben Morreale and Anthony Valerio; and the critical voice of William Boelhower. This anthology, hailed as a significant contribution to American ethnic studies, features the short stories, poems, and plays of more than thirty Italian American artists. Drawing on their individual and collective backgrounds and experience, these writer Anthologies (non-Poetry), , , , From the Margin, Anthony Julian Tamburri, 9781557531520, Purdue University Press, , , , ,

This anthology, hailed as a significant contribution to American ethnic studies, features the short stories, poems, and plays of more than thirty Italian American artists. Drawing on their individual and collective backgrounds and experience, these writers convey another vision of American fife. A section of critical essays by established scholars in the field, with topics ranging from specific works and authors to broad literary movements and film studies, analyzes the Italian American phenomenon and the role of ethnicity in literature. The extensive bibliography treats creative works, critical essays, and films dealing with the Italian American experience and promises to be an invaluable research tool.